{"id":14629,"date":"2022-03-03T12:36:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T11:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/?p=14629"},"modified":"2022-03-02T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T21:42:00","slug":"social-jet-lag-is-starting-work-later-helpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/social-jet-lag-is-starting-work-later-helpful\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Jet Lag: Is Starting Work Later Helpful?"},"content":{"rendered":"
As Benjamin Franklin once said, <\/span>early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise<\/span><\/i>. How true is this though? A huge new study says it\u2019s more complicated than that.<\/span><\/p>\n The pandemic lockdowns, flexible working hours, and other similar arrangements many experienced in 2020 made scientists realize that far more people have been suffering from a Social Jet Lag (SJL) than they thought.<\/span><\/p>\n The greater the difference between the timing of everyday activities and their natural <\/span>chronotype<\/span><\/a>, the greater the social jet lag. People with SJL are always compensating for their lost sleep during weekends.<\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019ve known so far that the socially acceptable nine-to-five working schedule is especially discriminating to people with night-oriented circadian rhythms (the so-called night owls), and benefiting early risers.<\/span><\/p>\n However, no one expected that a staggering 46% of the survey respondents would report reducing their SJL by waking up and going to sleep later. What\u2019s more, we\u2019re talking about <\/span>15,000 <\/span>adult respondents from around <\/span>14 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n On the other hand, only 20% of them claim that the pandemic circumstances increased their SJL. However, this doesn\u2019t mean that people slept better.<\/span><\/p>\n For some, the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic was enough to turn them into <\/span>corona somniacs<\/span><\/a>. Hence, countless individuals have turned to various sleep-improvement methods to manage stress levels before sleep, or to counter insomnia after returning to their offices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The study, published in the <\/span>Nature And Science Of Sleep <\/span><\/i>journal is another wake-up call for researchers to determine the possible public health benefits of work hours that accommodate different circadian rhythms.<\/span><\/p>\n